The virtual quarry is the UK&#039;s essential guide for young audiences to what really happens behind the barriers of a quarry, featuring how aggregates are found and extracted and where quarry products are used. (Tagged with learn stone science education geology rocks virtual kids quarry)

SAN FRANCISCO, California ? Drillers accidentally hit a pocket of molten rock underneath a working geothermal energy field in Hawaii, a lucky break for geologists that could allow them to map the geological plumbing that created everything we know as land.The unprecedented discovery could act as a &quot;magma observatory,&quot; allowing scientists to test their theories about how processes transformed the molten rock below Earth&#039;s surface into the rocky crust that humans live on today. (Tagged with WiredNews science research geology earth)

Drillers accidentally hit a pocket of molten rock underneath a working geothermal energy field in Hawaii, a lucky break for geologists that could allow them to map the geological plumbing that created everything we know as land. The unprecedented discovery could act as a &quot;magma observatory,&quot; allowing scientists to test their theories about how processes transformed the molten rock below Earth&#039;s surface into the rocky crust that humans live on today. (Tagged with cool science geology)